Tony Robinson, aka TV's very own factotum Baldrick, didn't have too many cunnings plans up his sleeve to safeguard public service broadcasting at today's Federation of Entertainment Unions event at the Houses of Parliament. But he spoke passionately about the need for "values" in the industry and against BBC plans to move Casualty from Bristol to Cardiff. He also proved that he is still a dab hand at delivering wisecracks. "People behave as if digital switchover is an elemental force," he intoned. "No it isn't, it was a decision made by politicians and human beings and technocrats … who are almost human beings." Boom boom! How we laughed. Or at least, how we laughed a bit more than the man sitting to Robinson's immediate left, former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis, Ofcom's partner for content and standards. And now technocrat in excelsis.
